[opendtv] Re: DTV Delay Bill

Could be a very messy long daisy chain.

Bob Miller

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How does this sort of thing work?  Can you just pick up the phone and call
> whoever's still got 40 and ask them their intentions?  Or is there some long
> daisy chain involved?
>
> - Tom
>
>
> John Shutt wrote:
>>
>> According to the linked story, the delay passed the Senate unanimously.
>>  Is there any doubt that it will get a majority in the House?  Is there any
>> doubt that Obama will sign it?
>>
>> We are currently on Digital 55.  Our final digital is 40.  We shut down
>> our Analog 23 on January 13th, so we could convert it to a Digital channel
>> 40 transmitter.  However, we cannot actually move to 40 until other
>> broadcasters also move.
>>
>> Is this bill only for those analogs that can stay on without causing
>> interference to others, (such as out of core analogs) and mandating that the
>> rest of the frequency switches occur?  Or is this bill essentially a
>> "continue the status quo" until June?  We've already dismantled our analog
>> transmitter beyond the point of no return, in the process of making it a
>> channel 40 digital transmitter.
>>
>> John
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "opendtv" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:02 AM
>> Subject: [opendtv] DTV Delay Bill
>>
>>
>>> Seems the Senate bill allows broadcasters to shut down at will after
>>> the February deadline and before the new June 12th deadline. What
>>> percentage of broadcasters will?
>>>
>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28863961/wid/11915829/?GT1=43001
>>>
>>> I thought that the Obama call to delay the transition was a fig leaf
>>> effort so that his administration could say that they did what they
>>> could. I didn't think it would even come up for a vote. But this bill
>>> could be the same thing. It allows Congress and the administration to
>>> both claim that they did what they could while blaming broadcasters,
>>> who might be hurting bad enough in the present economic climate, to
>>> scuttle the effort by turning off their analog transmitters in
>>> February anyway.
>>>
>>> Bob Miller
>>>
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